Corn-planter.



S. H. GARST.

CORN PLANTER.

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UNITED sTATEs PATENT oEEicE.

STEPHEN H. GAEST, 0F EIOLINE, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR T0 D. M. SECHLERIHPLEMENT &

' CARRIAGE GO., 0F MOLINE, ILLINOIS.

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To all 'whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, STEPHEN H. Ganar, a

'citizen lof the United States, residing at Moline, in the county ofRock Island and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Corn-Planters; and I do declare the following tobe afull, clear,.and exact description of the invention, such as will enableothers skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use thesame, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to theletters and iigures of reference marked thereon, which form a part ofthis specification.

This invention relates to improvements in machines for planting corn andother grain in hills or drill rows of varying depth and to sowfertilizer with the seed and to properly cover both seed and fertilizer.Experience teaches that it is not good practice to plant seed andfertilizer in the same place,

that isl to say in contact with each other,

owing to the liability of the fertilizer through its strong chemicalnature to injure ,the germs or tender roots ofthe germinatview of theconditions outlined above, 1s to rst de osit the seed in the furrow andthen cover t esame lightly with earth 4or soil and upon this coveringdeposit the fertilizer and to then cover the whole with earth orsoil.

With the present improvements, two kinds of seed may be plantedalternately and fertilizer delivered at the same time. Onekind of seedmay be planted deeper than the other and the fertilizer may be plantedunder the seed or the seed under the fertilizer, inV

which case a double 4seedhopper may be employed or a single seed hoppermay be employed as the character of the vplanting In planting it isnecessary that the soil shall fall into the furrow to ,cover the seedand the fertilizer and to fill the furrow properl as .the plantingprogresses, the seed an fertilizer being deposited in a mannerhereinaftermore particu- -larly set forth. To accomplish this a certainconstruction of runner` has been provided -which comprises an importantpart of' the present improvements aswell as the shank or standard towhich the "runner is attached and through vwhich the seed is dropped andother features of the planter,

Specification-of Letters Patent. I Patented June 12, 1917. Applicationled August 9, 1916. Serial No. 118,854. i

runner, shank, feed spouts, etc., other parts' being broken away; Fig. 3is a bottom plan 'view of the runner and other parts immediatelyassociated therewith; Fig. 4 is a section-on the line 4 -4 of Fig. 3;Fig. 5 is a section through the narrow portion of the runner andad]acent feed spouts oraon the line 5 5 of Fig. 2; Fig. 6 is an'elevation i Isimilar to Fig. 2 in which the standard or shank isdispensed with and a shoe is employed in place thereof whereby thechanging of the feed spouts from one position to the other isfacilitated in cases-where two charactersof seed are planted; Fig. 7 isa sectional view-lookin downwardly on the line 77 of Fig. 6; Fig. 8 is adetail sectional jview of the shoe and an adjustable clip by means ofwhich the seed spouts may be adjusted to sow the seed at differentdepths where two characters of seed are sown at the same`time, as wellas to change the position of the fertilizer spout; Fig. 9 is a detailelevation of an arrangement of a seed spout showing it extended artiallyin the rear of the standard, as s own in Fig. 1.

In a detail description Aof the invention,

similar reference characters indicate corre-u sponding parts.

Referrlng-to the drawings, -in detail, E

designates the main forward part of a bifurcated furrow opener orrunner. The

structural characteristics of said runner arel important, and in orderto. bring about a full f appreciation and understanding. of said runner,it will be described with some particularity. The blades forming thesame are welded at their forward portions in the form of a singleup-curve'd blade from which the sides diverge in gradual curves from apoint adjacent to the front end of the shank or standard J, as shown inFig.y 3. The runner is unitedto said shank orloo standard J and to thefrontend of the planter frame inthe usual manner. The

sides F`F of the runner continuey rear-4l wardly from the furrow-openingpart in parallel relation one vto the other and are cut out vfrom thelower edges to a considerable depth as at A-QA. These cut-outportionsare approximately reater than halfthe depth of said sides. he purpose of'these cut-out portions is to providelarge openings at these pointsofthe -runner for the soil formingthe walls of the r'furrow to freely fallinto preventing roots, trash, etc., from accumulating on the rearwardsides of the runner. The -soil is forced through the openings A-A in thevsides of the runner and into the groove or furrow' by the extensionsVC'-C;.the rearmost parts of the runner con- V sisting of theseextensions C-C beingi substantially wider than the forward parts F-Fthereof. The outline of the essential .shape `of the runner issubstantially shown in IFig.'` 3. 'The approximate ...width of therunner between the rearmost extensions C--C `is about. two inchesgreater than rthe width between the parts F--E Therefore,` thecurvatures D-D provide an oiset of approximately Vone inch on each side'of the runner. The curvatures-'atD-D arey made on easy lcurves in ordervthat the soil will not' stick tothe sides ofthe. runner.' As theplanter moves forward, the runner at the points F-F makes a furrowapproximately one and one-.half inches wide. The rear e x tensions C-Cof said runner'being approxi# mately three and one-half inches apart, it

will be evident that these portions. of theJ runner will removeapproximately one inch 'of the wall of' the furrow made by theI partsFF. In practice, this cause'sa constant stream of'- earth to'low inbetween the rear extensions C-C. of the runner thereby completelycovering the first article dropped within the furrow-whether it seed orfertilizer. The dimensionsstated above may be varied within certainlimits withoutdeparting from the essential features of the runner which,as before stated, comprise deep openings in the sides of"the runner inthe immediate rear of whichthesides of the runner are given easy orgradual' curves and spread .I outwardly whereby an opposite feed oftheearth from the side walls of the furrow is obtained. The `fiowl of thesoil throu h the" openings A- -A into the furrow made y the side partsF-F is substantially uniform.

mangos This result .is obtainable under any lconditionand in any kind ofsoil in which a lanter canbe operated, owingto the fact t at the 'rearextensions C-C- slice 'a part of the earth from the walls of the furrowin a manner similar to the action' of the share or i shovel of a plow.As lhas beenl stated, the

runner in combination with the-shank or standard and hopper is capableof lanting two kinds of seed alternately and ertilizer at the same time.In such use, a Well known type of double seed hopper may 'be employedconsisting brieiy of a hopper K and a hopper L, the former beinginclosed within the j latter with surrounding space.' In theibo'tQ tomYo'f the hopper `K' a well known seeddropping plate isprovided and thehopper L 4is secured to the rim M. In the space between the rim Mand-the hopper. K another fwell` known form offseed plate is placed.

These two seed plates: revolve together and may be madefin one piecewith two concentric rows of holes near the outer edge, the holes of onealternating with those vof the other. Each ofthese hoppers has a searate feed ,outlet and a separate spout or c annel extending lfrom-thebase of'thehoppers to the entrance into. the runner. The hopper L hasits outlet in a .spoutl O where it discharges into the.- standard J landcontinues downwardly in substantially a straight line ues downwardlyandjoins a tube J extending between the. rearward extensions. C-'C ofthe runner. Inside 'of ythe lower part of the standard J an adjustableVspout between therunner side'sF-FF' The hopper K has its outlet in'aspout Q whichcontini U is pivoda uff. This Spaan `has an larm Uwwhichprojects forwardly-through a suitable opening'in the standard and issecured'to a slotted prolectin V-w-hich is a I -partof'the standard Jand is held into its. adjuStdPOsition'by albolt Vf The spout U may bethus adjusted to cause thejlowe'rend thereof. to lbe moved backwardorforward between tlnasides'F.--F-"ofl the rul'iner.l The forwardmovement of the lower-end of'said gno` feed-spouthfs utilizedforplanting the .seed

deep 'and the farther 'forward the position yof said spout/is the deepertheseed will be planted. -Qn .the4 other hand, 'the backward movementofjsaid spout s is utilized forplanting the seed shallowfand-- the.fartherA backward the position 'of said Ispout is' theshallower the seedwill bev planted.

planting cornl and ybeans or peas, 'for' example, it is desirable toplant lthe beans and peas shallower than the corn.. -InFi 1 ytlie corndrops through the standard'hJ t rough `the inside spout U and landsinthe furrow as nearpthe shoulder IWJoff the' cut-out part 'of thevrunner as possible, therefore the seed getsinto` thefurrowbefo're'anysoilv has fallen in from the sides thereof. The 'seeds deposited at 4thelowest point of the furrow. 1 The beans or peas, as the case ma be, dropthrough the spouts Q and J jan land between the rear runner extensions vC--C after the furrow is partly -llled and j 5 are, therefore, not asdeep in the soil as the corn. The spout J and the adjustable spout U`enable such planting of different seeds one in the rear of the other,such for example, as beans or peas in the rear of corn, the latter at agreater depth.` In case it is desirable to use fertilizer, a hop r ismounted on the planter from which is fed the fertilizer through a spoutS from which it is deposited between the runner extensions C-Cand `iscovered by the soil which falls in behind said runner extensions. Inorder to prevent any possibility of the seed and fertilizer not beingcoveredeproperly and thorou hly, a pair of drag-shovels Y or any equivaent means are provided which entirely ll and, cover the furrowmade bythe runner. These drag-shovels are suitabl mounted cn'the framefof theplanter Wit theirlower ends curved rearwardly and inwardly.` The soil isthen yressed down and rounded into a suitable ridge by the planter vWheels Z.` In some instances, it is deslrable t0 deposit the fertilizerunder the seed, for example, in planting cotton seed. To accomplish thisa pocket B is provided in the side of the shank or standard J andA opens.into the cavity within said shank. In this case the lfertilizer s out Smay be carried in "said pocket and t e fertilizer discharging throughsaid spout be delivered to the furrow between the part F--F of therunner and near the shoulder W. The seed spout U ma then be adjusted sothat the lower end o said spout is in the rear of the pocket B. It willthus be seen that in order to` change the'feed of fertilizer from abovetoV `below the seed, the result merely involves "the change in thelocation of 'the fertilizer spout S. When the fertilizer spout `S `isinthe rearward position, it may be held in 4such position by means ofsultable clips G secured to the rear portion of the standard J, and-secured tothe fertilizer spout-S and the feed spout Q. These spouts maybe adjustedbackward and forward relative to the runner to vary the de thof the' seed or fertilizer by means of a s ot R in a portion of saidclips G through which a bolt passes f in uniting the same to theshank orstandard J. In Flg. 6, another means and method of changing the positionof the seed and yfertilizer with respect to the furrow lis shown butwhich does not, however, affect in any way the essentials of myimprovements.` In this case the shank "or standard J. is die pensedwithand on the top of the runner is suitablymounted a shoeH whichhas` anopening extending the length cthereof or' substantially so (whichreceives the coil spouts from the double seed hopper as wel] as thespout from the fertilizer hopper.` By changing'these spouts from oneposition to another within said shoe openn the order lof dropping theseed and fertilizer may be conveniently changed. The spout S in thiscase, leading from the i fertilizer hopper X,

is in the rearward position in the shoe H, I

and the spout Q, from the interior seed hopper K is in the central,position and the spout Ofrom the outside seed hopper L is able angleclips I may be employed for sup- ,in 1n the forward position' 1n saidshoe. Sultporting the hopper spouts in their proper p positions in ftheopening in the shoe H. These clips may be securedlto the shoe H by meansof boltsNwhich are movable back and forth in slots P in -a side of theshoe so that it is possible to adjust said clips back l of the seed` orfertilizer.' j v While IV have with some particularity de scribed mylseveral improvements `in seed planters especially -in connection withthe and forth and bv so doing to vary the depth' structural characterofthe runner, together k' with the facility with which and the means bywhich the seed spouts and fertilizer spout` may be chan ed intheirvoperative positions to accomm ate a variety of planting to meetmodern requirements, I do`not wish to limit myself to any particularstructure or feature that may be varied to, any` extenty Withoutdeparting from the underlying ommy aforesaid improvements. The objectsand purposes of my rimprovements are to provide a runner,for plantersAhaving a capacity for effectually forming a covering of soil in thefurrow as the planter proceeds, to cover up the first deposit of seed orthe fertilizer or vice versa as the case may be,v and means for changingat willthe positions of the various feed spouts" relative Wto the partsof the runner or the furrow made thereby. Y.

Having described my invention, I claim:

rinciples involved and results obtainable a forward furrow-openingportion, inter- `mediate side portions cut out from their i lower edgesto a substantial; depth to pro-r1 vide deep openn in the runner for thesoil to fall mtoe furrow from the walls thereof, said'v intermediateside portions extending rearwardly in outwardly lying sides' which joinsaid intermediate side portions by substantial curvatures whereby thesoil is drawn into the furrow asthe runner ad-l vances.

,2; A seed'planter runner provided with ay forward furrow-openingportion, intermediate side portions cutout from their lower ings inl therunner for the soil to fall through into the furrow, said intermediasside porf tions being extended in rearward' outwardlylyingfside 4whichlie on the outer I 1. A seed planter runner provided with 121sy edges toa substantial depth to provide openv l f of the frunner` extendingrearwardly from the furrow-openingy portion being perpendicularly `cutaway from the' lower edgev thereof to' provide substantial side openingsvmi adjacentlto the rearward terminal of the l for adjusting planting.'f 6.` In aseed planter, the combination with thereon having a ocket inthe side thereof sides f thefurrow and are adapted to draw the soil intothe furrow as the` runner ad# `vances, the lower edges of `said rearwardoutwardly-lying portionsjoining the ed es of the cut-out portions iiisubstantially 'curvatures v 3.-In a planter, aV runner-comprising a-forward furrow-o ning portion extending rearwardl in e portions whichlie in inner outer parallel planes, the portions in the inner planesbeing joined to Ythose in the outer planes by outwardly extending broadcurvatures, and the portions of said sides lyin inLtlie inner planesbeing cut away-from t ei-r lower edges to a subroad stantial depth inthe rear ofthe furrowortion to allow the soil to fallopening throu h terunner intothe furrow.

4.' seed` planter runner provided with a forward furrow-opening portion,the sides' furrow-opening portipn, and the entire portions of saidrunner extending rearwardly from said' perpendicular cut-away portionsbeing extended 'outwardly 'be'yond'theper- 30 pendicular cut-awayportions. A

5. Ina seed planter, the combination with a rlmier having a rearwardextension the sides of which are .:Q-.i of a standard mounted on saidrunner, va swinging feed spout' mounted in said standard, and means arlmner havinge, rearward ,extension re cessed as dsCri of a standardYmounted for the insertionV o 'a feed spout, a feed `spout on theinterior of said dar said `spout for deep or shallowr,

and means for adju-sting said swinging feed n spout for deep or shallowplanting. 7. In a seed planter, a runner having al forwardfurrow-opening portion, the side portions thereof in the rear of thefurrowopening portion being cut away from theirV lower edges to providesubstantially large openings through which the soil may readily fallinto the furrow, a plurality of feed spouts, andmeans for adjusting saidfeed spouts relative to lthe cut-away portion of the runner. v

8. In a seedv lanter, a runner provided with a forward urrow-openingportion, side rtionswut away to provide substantially r'ge openings inthe sides of the runner in the rear of the furrow-opening portion, saidside portions being extended outwardly in rearward portions beyond thesides of the furrow, a plurality of feed spouts yarranged ininterchangeable positions relative-to the runner, andmeans for adust-ing and supporting said feed spouts re ative to the cutaway portionof the runner. v

furrowening portion, and the sides of` which adjacent to thefurrow-openin portion are cut-out to provide openings in the sides ofthe runner through which the 'soil may -fall into the furrow, and therear por-V 9, In a seed planter,'a runner havinga

